Humbling Hugs

The Merry Makers are a musical troupe with a difference, learns Larry Schwartz.

NIGEL TRAILL was taken aback when he first turned up to film members of a dance troupe with disabilities.

"I must confess that it is confronting when you first see them," says the director of the award-winning documentary, The Music in Me, on the group with conditions including Down syndrome, autism and cerebral palsy...